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: It was agreed on by the people involved in updating the wiki after the last migration, and given that another migration is currently being discussed, it might not be such a bad idea. I do think that the existing macros could be adapted to reflect a merged repository (if the need arises). If in doubt, Johan and bugman were primarily involved in establishing these "link templates", but it seemed other wiki admins were also convinced it's a good idea, here's the original context: http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=FlightGear_wiki:Village_pump&oldid=87148#Repository_link_templates --[[User:Hooray|Hooray]] ([[User talk:Hooray|talk]]) 11:09, 22 November 2020 (EST) | : It was agreed on by the people involved in updating the wiki after the last migration, and given that another migration is currently being discussed, it might not be such a bad idea. I do think that the existing macros could be adapted to reflect a merged repository (if the need arises). If in doubt, Johan and bugman were primarily involved in establishing these "link templates", but it seemed other wiki admins were also convinced it's a good idea, here's the original context: http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=FlightGear_wiki:Village_pump&oldid=87148#Repository_link_templates --[[User:Hooray|Hooray]] ([[User talk:Hooray|talk]]) 11:09, 22 November 2020 (EST) | ||
:: I manually did the large part of that migration myself. The pain is insane! The changes could not be scripted - my attempts ended in a large proportion of dead links. There is too much variability and redundancy in the PHP query strings. I dealt with something like 5000 dead gitorious links manually, one by one. It took me weeks, and innumerable hours of work. If there is another infrastructure change, now with the {{tl|repo link}} family of templates I can migrate all of those 5000 links within seconds. Or if SourceForge, GitHub, GitLab, or the Gitorious archive change their URLs or PHP query string interface, I can fix all links within a single location. In 20 years we will still have the wiki and we would probably have gone through one or two infrastructure migrations, just as we have been through 3 different infrastructures in the previous 20 years (Curt's CVS server, Gitorious, and SourceForge). So there is a very big advantage for the long term viability of the wiki. | |||
:: A merged repository is also no problem for these templates. Just as I experimented with creating that merged repository, I also looked into what is required for the templates, and this is trivial (either for a merged repository, a submodule, or a subtree). | |||
:: [[User:Bugman|Bugman]] ([[User talk:Bugman|talk]]) 16:32, 22 November 2020 (EST) | |||